The Suffrage of Elvira
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| Author | V. S. Naipaul |
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| Cover artist | Robert Micklewright |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Andre Deutsch |
Publication date | 1958 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
The Suffrage of Elvira is a comic novel by V. S. Naipaul set in colonial Trinidad. It was written in 1957, and was published in London the following year. It is a satire of the democratic process and the consequences of political change, published a few years before Trinidad and Tobago achieved independence in 1962.